I don't believe Proxies are designed to give you any encapsulation to a
user who also has a reference to the target object - you'd have to never
provide the reference to the target object in the first place.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Michael Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello community,
>
> The proxy is almost an identical to the underlying object, but it* fails
> a comparison check with the underlying object.*
>
> This means that if anyone gets a reference to the underlying object before
> it is proxied, then we have a problem.  For example:
>
> var obj = {};
> var proxy = new Proxy(obj, {});
> obj == proxy; // false
>
> *Isn't the purpose of the proxy to be exchanged with the original**,
> without any negative side effects?  *Maybe that's not the intended use
> case, but it's a useful one.  And, besides the comparison, I can't think of
> any other "negative side effects".
>
> It seems like the Proxy could have a *comparison trap*.  The comparison
> could pass by default, and you could use the trap if you wanted to make
> `proxy == obj` fail.
>
> Also, a slight tangent: it would be awesome if you could *skip debugging
> proxy traps when stepping through code.  *When you proxy both `get` and
> `apply` for all objects/methods, you have 10x the work when trying to step
> through your code.
>
> I just subscribed to this list.  Is this an appropriate venue for this
> type of inquiry?  I appreciate any feedback.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
>
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